Map #2 (Massachusetts Lobster Harvest 1997) final project

This map is about lobsters and much more. Massachusetts harvests its fair share of lobster every year from its New England shores. This map gives fisherman a general guideline for were most of the lobsters hangout along the coastal regions of Massachusetts, and could be useful in identifying places to try and trap lobsters. The map points out several interesting trends. Most of the lobster harvested in Massachusetts comes from the coast regions in the north and many of the lobster are caught close to shore. Even if you are not interested in lobster harvest this map still shows a good representation of the bathymetry of the coast of Massachusetts and identifies some of the reefs and shoals that could be hazardous to navigate a boat through. All of the data I used to create this map was provided by mass GIS.

Map #1 (Trophy Mule Deer Counties of Idaho) Final Project

This map is useful to anyone interested in hunting big mule deer in Idaho. For those of you that don’t know Idaho is the number two state in the nation for all-time Boone and Crockett entries in regards to mule deer. This map displays the distribution of the record mule deer harvested by hunters according the Idaho Fish and Game records. Buck mule deer antlers must have a Boone and Crockett net score of 185 typical or 215 non-typical to qualify for the Idaho record book. The mule deer entries are broken up by county. This map is useful in identifying the regions of Idaho that are noted for big mule deer. Various regions of Idaho appear to stand out in this map for producing quality mulies. The southeastern portion of Idaho bordering Wyoming has a reputation for big bucks, also the region north of Boise in the southwestern portion of Idaho is another great location were big bucks appear to pop up. The best County for big bucks is Adams County located in the west central portion of the state with 39 entries. The map also displays where the top 5 typical and non-typical bucks were harvested. The bucks skulls are a representation of this, with the size of the skull indicating each bucks rank. The largest skull is the number one and the smaller the skull gets the lower the rank.

This map came off of a fishing charter website. It is a map of Lake Coeur d’ Alene, ID. It’s a good reference map that idanetifies the major roads around the lake, various portions of the lake, and the towns located on the lake.

Here is another map that displays the census tracts of Buffalo, NY. It’s a bivariate map that displays two forms of information at one time, the dots represent the Asian population for a particular region and the color of the census block indicates the overall population of that census block.

This world map is good at showing the relative population of various capial cities around the world. This map style is called proportional symbol mapping, it is good way at relating size to some kind of quantitative value.

This dot map of Idaho is a good way to show where the agricultural lands are in idaho. You will notice most of the Agricultural lands in nothern idaho are in the palouse region, and in southern Idaho the snake river plain. The map was created in ArcMap.

Idaho Precipitation Map II

Map II also identifies the annual precipitation over Idaho. This isarithmic map should indicate regions of Idaho that receive high amounts of rainfall and others that receive little rainfall, and the variation within the state. Point data from weather stations were used to find the different precipitation amounts in various locations of Idaho. A Kriging interpolation was used to estimate the annual precipitation across all of Idaho. Map 1 and 2 show some variation, this is due to the different algorithms used to interpret the point data for all of Idaho.